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Type, knowing style, and gender of Asian American college students

Park, Linda H.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407486284

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2005, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between knowing styles, psychological type, and gender of Asian American college students. Belenkey and Colleagues (1986) in Women’s Ways of Knowing postulated that Separate and Connected knowing styles are gender conditioned. Hence, men are more likely to be Separate knowers whereas women are more likely to be Connected knowers. Interestingly, the Thinking and Feeling dimension of Jung’s theory of Psychological type (1921) seems comparable to the Separate and Connected knowing styles. In four previous studies, Rodgers and Colleagues (1998; 2000), Ullman-Petrash (2000), and Williams (2000), found evidence that psychological type appeared to be more associated with knowing style than with gender. However, in Williams’ (2000) study of international students, cultural conditioning strongly affected the outward expression of their knowing styles. For these international students, they behaved more like Connected, even if Separate knowers are internally arguing or thinking of contrary. This study addressed three questions: first, is gender or psychological type more associated with knowing style preferences for Asian American students?; secondly, how do Asian American college students construct their knowing styles compared to the US and the Asian international students?; and lastly, how does the acculturation level affect knowing styles of Asian American college students? Forty-six Asian American students whose age ranged from 18-25 year old and were of Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese descents completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Form M, and participated in an interview to determine knowing style. The quantitative results from this current study corroborate three of the previous studies by Ullman-Petrash (1993), Rodgers and Colleagues (1998), and Rodgers (2000); the Thinking and Feeling psychological types, is more associated with Separate and Connected knowing styles, than gender. However, there were several differences in the qualitative results of Rodgers’ (2000), Williams’ (2000), and the current study regarding the way in which college students constructed and used their knowing styles. The similarities and differences that exist between the samples, appeared to be the result of the Asian American participants’ adherence to Asian and Western cultural values. The Asian American college students did not have trouble stating their opinions as long as it was with people with whom they were close. This appears to be from adapting the Western cultural value. However, like the Asian international students, Asian American students discussed the importance of respecting elders and maintaining harmony or peace in relationships. This seems to be from Asian cultural value influence.
Robert F. Rodgers (Advisor)
Allen Delong (Committee Member)
128 p.
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  • Park, L. H. (2005). Type, knowing style, and gender of Asian American college students [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407486284

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Park, Linda. Type, knowing style, and gender of Asian American college students. 2005. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407486284.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Park, Linda. "Type, knowing style, and gender of Asian American college students." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407486284

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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